Robert Califf, MD, on Tuesday narrowly won Senate confirmation to once again serve as the commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), overcoming protest votes from lawmakers about abortion and opioid issues. The Senate voted 50-46 in favor of Califf’s nomination. A cardiologist long affiliated with Duke University and a noted expert on
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The torrent of man-made chemical and plastic waste worldwide has massively exceeded limits safe for humanity or the planet, and production caps are urgently needed, scientists have concluded for the first time. There are an estimated 350,000 different manufactured chemicals on the market and large volumes of them end up in the environment. “The impacts
Welcome to the first post in our Inequalities Series, a series of articles that discusses health inequalities and how they relate to cancer, from prevention and early diagnosis to treatment and research. In this first article, we talk to Professor Sir Michael Marmot, who has stood at the forefront of research into health inequality for
How do our social connections enrich our lives? There are countless viral quotes that say something along the lines of, if you’re rich in friendship you’re rich for life – the point being that our connections enhance our lives in ways other factors can only just scratch the surface. But behind the greeting-card-ready soppiness, is
The study covered in this summary was published on researchsquare.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaway Why This Matters The finding challenges the notion that ICI-induced vitiligo is limited to melanoma patients. With growing use of checkpoint inhibitors for nonmelanoma cancers, the diversity of patients’ skin color is expected
We’ve known since early on in the pandemic that COVID reinfections could occur. One of the first reinfections reported was in a 33-year-old man from Hong Kong. His initial infection was diagnosed on March 26 2020, with his second infection, with a genetically distinct virus, being diagnosed 142 days later. Since then reports of reinfection
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Moderna vaccines are prepared for application at a United States military vaccination centre at Camp Foster on April 28, 2021 in Ginowan, Japan. Carl Court | Getty Images Shares of the major Covid vaccine makes fell on Monday, as the U.S. emerges from the unprecedent wave of omicron infection with new cases rapidly dropping across
People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have a higher risk of mortality, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis. All-cause mortality was more than doubled in people with ASD (rate ratio [RR] 2.37, 95% CI 1.97-2.85, I2 89%) and in those with ADHD (RR 2.13, 95% CI 1.13-4.02, I2 98%),
This Valentine’s Day, a new Northwestern Medicine study published in Circulation shines a spotlight on an important but often overlooked matter of the heart — optimizing one’s cardiovascular health before getting pregnant. More than one in two young women between the ages of 20 and 44 who gave birth in the United States in 2019
Combining centuries-old traditional mandala coloring with cutting-edge computing and brain sensing technologies could lead to new ways of helping people achieve mindfulness. Mandalas are geometric configurations of shapes that have their origins in Buddhist traditions. The coloring of mandala shapes is increasingly popular as a way for people to attempt ‘mindfulness’, a way of being
The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) has issued recommendations for treating depression in patients with epilepsy. The new guidance highlights the high prevalence of depression among patients with epilepsy while offering the first systematic approach to treatment, reported lead author Marco Mula, MD, PhD, of Atkinson Morley Regional Neuroscience Centre at St George’s University Hospital, London,
Oral tofacitinib (Xeljanz), a JAK inhibitor, helped regrow hair in three quarters of pediatric patients with alopecia areata (AA) in a small study conducted at the University of Colorado and published in Pediatric Dermatology. The 11 pediatric patients, ages 8 to 18 years, all with a diagnosis of AA, were treated with tofacitinib. Eight patients,
So you want to be a family medicine doctor. You like the idea of primary care, working with patients of all age ranges, and like Vin Diesel, you don’t have friends, you got family. Let’s debunk the public perception myths, and give it to you straight. This is the reality of family medicine. Family medicine
Some cancers grow fast and spread quickly, while others grow so slowly that if they went undetected, the cancer would not result in any major problems. Determining which cancers are aggressive or fast growing and will need immediate treatment is really important, but can often be challenging. Prostate cancer in particular presents multiple diagnostic problems.
Residents wait in line at a Covid-19 mobile testing site in the Times Square neighborhood of New York, U.S., on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Senior U.S. health officials have sought to reassure a pandemic weary public that the country is moving closer to a time when Covid-19 won’t
“The body treats loneliness as a state of threat.” — Steve Cole, PhD, of the University of California Los Angeles, on how lonely older adults, otherwise free of risk factors, saw triple the dementia incidence. “The biggest misconception is that it’s really complicated.” — Justin Brandt, MD, of Rutgers University in New Jersey, on ob/gyns
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers from the United States assess the incidence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) breakthrough cases and reinfections among unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals. Study: Time to reinfection and vaccine breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections: a retrospective cohort study. Image Credit: PhotobyTawat / Shutterstock.com Introduction To date,
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* pre-print server, researchers used a suite of methods to detect severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the testis of patients who died from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to gain insights into SARS-CoV-2 tropism inside testis and its impact on male fertility. Human testis cells express
Patients whose vision is impaired by atrophic age-related macular degeneration can integrate their natural peripheral vision with images supplied through a subretinal implant, researchers say. With magnification supplied by augmented reality glasses, patients reached a visual acuity in the range of 20/63–20/98 up to 2 years after implantation. These findings suggest that the next versions
Models using novel kidney and cardiac biomarkers were the most effective predictors of 10-year risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease patients, in a new study. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients may be at increased risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, but no ASCVD risk prediction models are currently in place to inform clinical
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A vaccinator draws a Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pediatric vaccine in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, U.S., December 5, 2021. Hannah Beier | Reuters Parents of children under 5 will have to wait until at least April to get their kids vaccinated against Covid-19, after the Food and Drug Administration and Pfizer this week abruptly delayed plans to
Stroke centers with advanced Joint Commission certifications did provide better care and outcomes for patients, the Get With the Guidelines (GWTG) stroke registry showed, and more and more hospitals appeared to be on their way to raising their status. Among U.S. hospitals offering reperfusion therapy to stroke patients, certified thrombectomy-capable stroke centers (TSCs) and comprehensive
The University of South Florida recently received a highly competitive National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutional Training Grant (Award Number T32HL160529), boosting the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine’s (MCOM) capacity to prepare the next generation of scientists in an emerging area of research applicable to many major diseases. The NIH’s National, Heart, Lung, and
It has long been known that there is an association between food and pain, as people with chronic pain often struggle with their weight. Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience may have found an explanation in a new study that suggests that circuitry in the brain responsible for motivation and pleasure is impacted
Individuals with restless legs syndrome showed an increase in symptom severity in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States in 2020, but this increase had waned by 2021, according to data from 500 participants in the National Restless Legs Syndrome Opioid Registry. Sufferers of restless legs syndrome (RLS) experience not only sleep
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